The National Trust Country House Album
- ISBN-10
- 0821217186
- ISBN-13
- 9780821217184
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Bulfinch Press
- Author
- Christopher Simon Sykes
Description
Photographs and descriptions of some of the finest homes in England, selected from family albums by a photographer of British homes, record the lifestyles of a bygone era of wealth and stately grandeur
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